From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possible defvar bug Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:25:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87d2vxr8h6.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361287575 9153 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2013 15:26:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:26:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 19 16:26:35 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U7p5X-0001Zm-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:26:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37913 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7p5D-0003dX-Im for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:26:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49162) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7p54-0003c3-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:26:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7p4q-00081l-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:26:06 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7p4q-00081g-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:25:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7p4o-0005Uc-CY; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:25:50 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:40:04 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157157 Archived-At: > (let ((crm-separator ",")) > (require 'crm)) This is a long-standing issue. The only solution at the moment is "don't do that". We could make it give an error. defvar is a primitive and could check the specpdl to see if the variable has a local binding. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call